APBA Professional Golf

The APBA Golf Game was origionally published by APBA in 1962. It contained 18 Greatest Holes and came with 32 well known golfers. The 18 Greatest Holes publsihed in the 1962 edition contain 4 different holes than later versions of the 18 Greatest Holes.

As the Golfer card sets ran out of production APBA publshed new sets to replace the out of production sets. This led to the creation of a:

1962/64 set, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1985 and an All Time Greats Set. Sports Game Publishing and the APBA Journal also published a number of golf sets in later years as well.

8 Courses were published by APBA officially (Two Versions of the 18 Greatest Holes). The now defunct Sports Game Publishing company also published at least 3 more courses for the game adding: Sawgrass, Winged Foot, St. Andrews and Oakmont to the list. The format for these course were 3 to a page on 11 x 17 paper and then changed to 8 1/2 x 11 with one course per page.

ASG Golf (George Gerney | www.asggames.com) has gone on to publish courses for: Bethpage Black, Pinehurst No 2., Augusta National, Pebble Beach, TPC Scottsdale, St. Andrews, TPC Sawgrass and Bay Hill.

From the APBA Journal: An Eighth APBA Golf Course (For Holes 3,4,5,6 of the greatest hits)

"While preparing the Golf Archives Reference Pack (now available from the AJ office). I encountered a letter to the editor in the August 15, 1971, issue of APBA Innings. (Back in those practically prehistoric days, the AJ covered only baseball, leaving APBA's other sports to its competition, AI.)